cgi authentication

[Dan Grassi]

I need to do authentication from Python, for various reasons using Apache 
and .htaccess is not a workable solution.  I can get the request to show up
with the following code but I can not figure out how to access the returned
name/password pair.  Yes, I have looked hard for the info on the web and in
the books. "-)

Can anyone help?

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#!/usr/bin/python

import cgi
sys.stderr = sys.stdout

import os
if not os.environ.has_key("REMOTE_USER"):
 print "Status: 401 Authenication Required"
 print "WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm=\"Mine\""
 print "Content-type: text/html"
 print
 print "Failed"
else:
 print "Content-Type: text/plain"
 print
 print "Worked"
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